Famous quotes containing the words mountains and/or wilderness:
“He who lets the tiger go back to the mountains will surely suffer later on.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)